City Scriptures : Modern Jewish Writing /
Baumgarten, Murray
City Scriptures : Modern Jewish Writing / Murray Baumgarten. - Reprint 2013 - 1 online resource (185 p.)
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1. An Urban Phenomenon -- 2. Dual Allegiances -- 3. Clothing and Character -- 4. Abishag: The Body's Song -- 5. Community and Modernity: Sholom Aleichem -- 6. Folk Speech and Holy Tongue: Agnon and Borges -- 7. Language Rules -- 8. City Premises -- Notes -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
This richly suggestive book examines the common bonds of thought and shared manner of expression that unite Jewish writers working in America, Eastern Europe, and Israel. Murray Baumgarten shows how Jewish traditions are reflected in the themes and narrative style of a diverse group of writers, including Saul Bellow, Henry Roth, Sholom Aleichen, Isaac Babel, and S.Y. Agnon. Baumgarten finds in these writers a distinctive and symbolic use of the urban scene arid style of life—whether the city is Brooklyn, Chicago, Vienna, Warsaw, Odessa, or Jerusalem. He examines the pariah stance, and the different kinds of tension between freedom from communal ties and the pull of traditional culture. He demonstrates how Yiddish can flavor and inflect the syntax, how scripture can permeate the thinking and narrative devices, in writers of various nationalities.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780674282551 9780674282568
10.4159/harvard.9780674282568 doi
City and town life in literature.
Jews in literature.
Juifs dans la littérature.
Juifs dans la littérature.
Jüdische Literatur.
Jüdische Literatur.
Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft.
Villes dans la littérature.
Villes dans la littérature.
American literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism.
Jews -- United States -- Intellectual life.
Judaism and literature -- United States -- History.
Religion -- General.
Yiddish language -- Influence on foreign languages.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish.
PS153.J4
809/.8924
City Scriptures : Modern Jewish Writing / Murray Baumgarten. - Reprint 2013 - 1 online resource (185 p.)
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1. An Urban Phenomenon -- 2. Dual Allegiances -- 3. Clothing and Character -- 4. Abishag: The Body's Song -- 5. Community and Modernity: Sholom Aleichem -- 6. Folk Speech and Holy Tongue: Agnon and Borges -- 7. Language Rules -- 8. City Premises -- Notes -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
This richly suggestive book examines the common bonds of thought and shared manner of expression that unite Jewish writers working in America, Eastern Europe, and Israel. Murray Baumgarten shows how Jewish traditions are reflected in the themes and narrative style of a diverse group of writers, including Saul Bellow, Henry Roth, Sholom Aleichen, Isaac Babel, and S.Y. Agnon. Baumgarten finds in these writers a distinctive and symbolic use of the urban scene arid style of life—whether the city is Brooklyn, Chicago, Vienna, Warsaw, Odessa, or Jerusalem. He examines the pariah stance, and the different kinds of tension between freedom from communal ties and the pull of traditional culture. He demonstrates how Yiddish can flavor and inflect the syntax, how scripture can permeate the thinking and narrative devices, in writers of various nationalities.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780674282551 9780674282568
10.4159/harvard.9780674282568 doi
City and town life in literature.
Jews in literature.
Juifs dans la littérature.
Juifs dans la littérature.
Jüdische Literatur.
Jüdische Literatur.
Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft.
Villes dans la littérature.
Villes dans la littérature.
American literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism.
Jews -- United States -- Intellectual life.
Judaism and literature -- United States -- History.
Religion -- General.
Yiddish language -- Influence on foreign languages.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish.
PS153.J4
809/.8924